Daniel, On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Daniel Roesen <d...@cluenet.de> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 05:51:25PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> > Imagine: multicast internet radio! Awesome! >> >> That would, indeed, be awesome; when everyone in my office was listening to >> the royal wedding, there would be a *much* higher chance of them all being >> in sync. > > That reminds me of 9/11. When the tragic event unfolded, we sat in the > office. News made the rounds verbally, and people started looking for > streaming services at their personal desks (no TVs around). People > pretty quickly gave up trying to find streams and news portals which were > actually working fine and the crowd gathering behind me watching over my > shoulder became bigger and bigger. > > Why? Because I was in the fortunate position of being able to watch an > Mbone multicast stream of some news TV broadcaster... cannot remember > wether it was CNN or BBC or someone else entirely. Back then, a collegue > was playing around with IP multicast and my desktop machine had connectivity > to his Mbone-connected playground. :) > > IP multicast was the only way for us to see what happened, live. > Unicast failed miserably.
+10 I've been meaning to write something similar. Multicast infrastructure in place absolutely and certainly has a role to play in "humanity-wide" events. Also, having a 'free' distribution channel for those moving images carrying such licensing that it does not matter how many eyeballs see them, could be valuable as well. I made sure to get this capability in the network I worked on last. Cheers, Martin
